Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-30
NORTH CAROLINA.
HOW A LAUGH BENEFITED A PRr-
sOEER.
The State Board Of Pharmscy-Cosl Dis.
covery-Currsnt Ssws So'ea-Psr.
sonal and Political.
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the Georgia and North Carolina rail
way have escaped. SO far seventeen
are reported to have escaped.
News was received here to-day that
anthracite coal had been discovered
near Shelby, Cleveland county.
The Grand Lodge, Knights OF Honor,
in session at Washington. has sixty
delegates in attendance.
Adeputy sheriff from Catawba county
brought negro convict to the peniten-
iiary who was sentenced to ten years Mt
labor. The prisoner asked for mercy,
whereupon some person in the court
room laughed. The Judge, hearing
the laughter, rebuked the man who
laughed and RENTED five years OF the
term ; be afterwards RENTED two years
more.
The summer street-cars built by the
North Carolina Car Company, of this
city, were put on the Raleigh street.
railway to-day. They are handsome.
At Wilmington yesterday the owner,
master, and engineer of the river
steamer Delta were before the United
States Commissioner. 1t was alleged
that the engineer had no license that
he put weights upon the safety-valve,
and that the bost had 10 license to
carry passengers. j. ID. Kerr. owner;
A. Il. Hubbard, master, and Steve Gro
nnrtie, engineer, were all held to APP
pear st court.
TIE DURHAM AND FRASKLIyTOy RAIL
ROAD.
A surveying corps, under the direc-
ton of Captain Charles II. Scott, en-
eineer of the Raleigh and CASTOR rail
road, is making the survey for the road
from Durham to Franklinton. This
line, it is understood, is to be con-
structed by the Raleigh and Castor.
The latter road is very active corpo-
ration and has built some important
branch lines. The surveying party is
now in few miles of Franklinton,
having traversed most of tho distance
between the two points. The building
of this road will certainly create a stir
in railway circles in tho State.
AN IMPORTANT EXTENSION.
1t was some time ago limited that the
Cape. Fear and Ysdkin-Yalley railroad
might extend its line further south
from Bennettsville, s. G.. 1t now APP
pears that there is to DO realization
of this idea, and that the extension is
to be to point below Camden June
ton, so as to give connection with
Charleston, ;. e..
OTHBR RAILWAY NEWS.
The registration OF voters on the
question Of the subscription of 10000
by the city of Wilmington to the CAPT
tai stock o. the Wilmington, OnsIow
and East Carolina road is slow and will
be light, it is generally believed. To
be carried it is only needful that it
should receive majority of the regis
tered vote. 1t is stated that certain
enemies of the scheme will take all
sorts of legal steps to delay the matter
i'll case the majority is for subscription,
as now appears pretty certain.
A Wilmington firm has embarked in
a new venture by purchasing rond in
South Carolina near the North Caro-
lima line, known as the Bishopville rail-
road. 1t 10 proposed to extend this
road towards the North Carolina line,
if not entirely to it.
FATALLY BURNED.
Mrs. Charles jenkins, of Lenoir
county, was perhaps fatally burned yes
terday while starting fire in a stove
with kerosene.
FARMERS SUDDEN DE ArH.
Guilford Hales, of Johnston county,
while Mt work on his farm. i'll potato
field, fell dead, and was found lying
across a potato hill, his hoe beside
him. His age was seventy.
A CASH oP CHEEK.
Morton. Bliss & Co. announce that
on the 20th Of next month, Mt New
York, engraved "trust certiiiites"
will he issued by the United States
Trust Company for the settle
ment OF North Cardinals "spe-
cial-tax bonds" The Signal, the
Raleigh Republican organ, appears to
think that these special-tsx bonds are
Just, and that the State ought to pay
them. The people of North Carolina,
and not Morton. Bliss & Co, or Judge
Bond either, have this matter in their
hands.
REPUBLICANS AND PROHIBITION.
Months ago it WAS stated on the au-
thority of n leading Republican jour-
palist Of this State that the Republi-
cans were casting about to secure an
alliance with tho Prohibitionists, and
that in few years such combination
might be regarded as a certainty. The
idea thus suggested has developed, and
in the very next campaign an attempt
at fusion of the parties will be made
by the Republicans.
NEWS HERE AND THERE.
Rev. DR.. L. McKinnon, president Of
Trinity College, is at Clinton. He is
in very poor health and is greatly ema-
ciated his condition is in fact deplora-
BILE, though his physicians are yet hope
full of return to health. He is an ad-
mirable man and has done faithful
work.
Next Sunday Rev. DR.. Leo. Rosser,
of the Virginia Methodist Conference,
will begin to aid in revival at Louis
burg.
Funds have been secured for the
completion of the new Methodist